Fears of an alien invasion in the US increased in the 1960s and 1970s after reports of UFOs hovering over military bases swept the country.
Now, decades later, a UFO expert has claimed that the alien spaceships have visited “every major nuclear missile base” and continue to do so to this day.
Robert Hastings, who has interviewed many Army personnel about the bizarre sightings, said: “The ones currently operational have been visited repeatedly year after year according to the sources I interviewed.”
Hastings recently made waves when he revealed that more than 120 former military personnel had come forward about their encounters with flying objects near nuclear weapons storage sites and testing sites.
“In the meantime, a public effort must be made to understand – as best we can, using the data collected so far – the nature and intentions of those operating the UFOs,” Hastings wrote in his recent book detailing the interviews told.
“Or perhaps they have a use for our planet, say for scientific purposes, and they know that global nuclear warfare will disrupt their data collection and/or experiments.”
In his book UFOs and Nukes, he revealed that researchers cannot properly investigate the cases due to questionable layers of classification.
However, one thing is certain: it is “obvious” that if there are alien visitors, they have “a keen interest in our nuclear weapons.”
A UFO expert claimed that UFOs have been visiting nuclear bases for a long time and continue to do so. For at least 17 nights in December 2023, swarms of small “drones” were seen invading the highly restricted airspace above Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
Hastings’ comments echo a study published in June that analyzed more than 500 of the best-supported UFO cases from the Cold War heyday and concluded that “this intelligence community understands atoms, and they understand nuclear weapons.”
UFO reports about the U.S. nuclear arsenal seemed to shift from bomb-making sites to missile silos and U.S. air bases as the Cold War arms race grew.
The study was conducted by Ian Porrit, a retired US Air Force staff sergeant, data analyst associated with Harvard’s UFO hunting Galileo Project, and a research team.
The group focused on official military and police reports on UFOs from 1945 to 1975, avoiding poorly supported accounts and ambiguous newspaper stories, to focus on cases with multiple witnesses and signal evidence, such as radar.
Their study, which covered only U.S. cases, also used reports of UFOs spotted over non-nuclear military bases and nearby civilian centers to act as control groups and test their findings on any UFO trends at the sensitive U.S. nuclear facilities.
The team found that data from 1948 through 1975 supported the idea that aliens, or some other intelligence, had been methodically monitoring America’s rise to nuclear power.
‘This intelligence understands the development cycle. They have some contextual knowledge of what they’re looking at and what they’re looking for,” Hancock told DailyMail.com, given the shifts in reported UFO sightings over time.
From 1948 to 1952, when U.S. production of atomic weapons first increased, waves of UFO sightings began popping up over the Hanford nuclear production complex in Washington state, as well as at Los Alamos and other Manhattan Project sites.
Hastings’ recent claims come just weeks after new government data showed other UFO waves turning up near military sites, including Joint Base Langley-Eustis (pictured)
“What we know now is that within the air force for the first seven to 10 years they genuinely believed it was the Russians,” Hancock told DailyMail.com.
“And when they couldn’t prove that,” he said, “it became very political.”
From 1952 onwards, their research found that cases of UFOs investigating the vicinity of active nuclear weapons took precedence, with a wave of sightings surrounding America’s new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from the 1960s onwards.
“When you get to those ICBM bases, from about 1965 to 1975, these things happen at night,” Hancock noted.
‘And they are much more pushy. They are at a very low altitude and are penetrating the security boundaries of the base,” he added.
Hastings’ recent claims come just weeks after new government data revealed other UFO waves near military sites, including 17 nights in December 2023 when swarms of UFOs were tracked over Joint Base Langley-Eustis.
These brazen penetrations over Langley — home to at least half of the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighters — led to two weeks of emergency meetings at the White House.
So far, Langley’s mysterious UFOs have not been identified by the Pentagon, law enforcement, or even NASA’s high-altitude research aircraft, the WB-57F, which was called in to investigate.
Gen. Glen VanHerck, the commander of North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), who led the mission to shoot down the infamous Chinese spy balloon in February 2023, described that Langley wave as unlike any other known instance.
“If there are unknown objects in North America,” General VanHerck told the Wall Street Journal, “get out there and identify them.”
Senior ex-Pentagon security official Chris Mellon told DailyMail.com last week that the UFOs were “swarms of smaller craft” released by “motherships.”
He explained that this was “part of a much larger pattern affecting numerous national security installations.”
“Two of the notable aspects,” he said, “are the fact that our drone signal jamming devices have proven ineffective and that these craft make no effort to remain hidden.”
Mellon told DailyMail.com: ‘I’m not making any claims about their origins, perhaps many are Chinese drones.’
“(But) in some cases,” Mellon pointed out, “it’s clear they want to be seen as challenging us.”